Groundbreaking discoveries and inventions in the Life Sciences advancing Evidence Based Medicine
The CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool has been used in a proof-of-concept study to produce single-sex mice litters with 100% efficiency. The ability to influence the sex of animals has great…
A team of researchers at the Intelligent Polymer Research Institute at the University of Wollongong in Australia have developed a 3D bioprinting platform that they have demonstrated can be used…
The gut microbiome consists of a wide variety of microbes and plays an important role in health, not just with the digestion of food, but also with many different physiological…
Image: Transgenic worms, Hofstenia miamia. Credit; Lorenzo Ricci, University of Harvard Several species can regenerate body parts when they are lost, but few are better at regeneration than three-banded panther…
A new method has been developed for controlling therapies inside human cells using an RNA-based control switch, which could be used to selectively activate transgenes to trigger the production of…
Most new human infectious diseases are caused by viruses that originated in animals that have made the jump to humans, with SARS-CoV-2 being the latest example. Identifying the next zoonotic…
A new potential treatment for Alzheimer’s disease has been developed by an international team of researchers that has been shown to be effective in mouse models of the disease. The…
Human brain organoids created from induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) have been engineered to develop optic vesicles that respond to light. Development of the eyes in embryogenesis is a complex…
The CRISPR gene editing system is most commonly used for making cuts to double stranded DNA to remove or replace faulty genes, but that is not the only way that…
Patients living with Type 2 diabetes that also require kidney dialysis may soon benefit from an artificial pancreas which would help them manage their blood sugar levels to prevent blood…